American Writers and Technology
"Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules -- and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress."--Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan.
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Transcendentalism
Hudson River School
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